29 comments on “Amazing balls”

Given the option, I’d say “both” as well, but definitely siding strongly on the side of “creative genius”. Fascinating to watch. I love huge, detailed LEGO contraptions. It takes an amazing mind to put them together, and it’s wonderful that we live in a world where there is a freely available material for prototyping such wonderous machines.

On one level a kind of moving catalogue of ingenuity. The different transport mechanisms are impossibly imaginative, but I presume fairly standard in industry. My personal favourite was the wheels that seemed to hand the balls from one to the next, but there were many many others.

On another level reminds me of the ingenuity of early steam engineers who had to figure out how to convert one type of motion into another.

We are such a lazy people that we think the completion of this is “genius”. It is definitely great to see, but it isn’t necessarily “genius”. This guy/girl was willing to put in 600 hours to make this. They were willing to dedicate the time to project. Since our world is so lazy now days they think that any accomplishment is either “genius”, “gifted”, or “provided by the government” that no one is willing to say “that person worked their ass off to get this done”. So, not genius and not waste of time. Very dedicated person!

Genius. And living in a country where the vast majority of people watch countless hours of television I don’t see how anyone could categorize any activity that actually requires people to use their brains and be creative as a waste of time.

the workflow here is serious underoptimized and full of redundancies and unclear processed. a simpler production/transport system would enable the factory to handle far more balls with fewer potential points of failure.
if this is representative of modern manufacturing techniques then no wonder the chinese are taking over.